"LUKE!" yelled the primary president.
It was hilarious.
Sacrament meeting was even more eventful. My friend Mark was giving a last minute speaking assignment. He was doing a fine job with his talk when all of the sudden there was a big bang against the side door. A man walks in holding a cane out and with his arms outstretched proclaimed "I am here." Then he shouts "Frank told me I HAD to come so I am here." (mark looks a little bamboozled now.) Next this old man starts walking torwards Mark and says. "Ohh SHUT UP will you?" (the whole congregation has a big collective intake of breath.) He then turns back to the congregation and says "That Bastard Frank told me I had to come and I am here s. He is such a whinny bastard, (he points to a women) You would know, you have to put up with him." Then he says, "F*^& You all," (in the mean time, the whole congregation gasps again, Mark resumes his talk, our ward police officer runs up to the front and starts trying to wrestle his cane from him (I at the moment couldn't understand why she would want to take it from him) and two social workers trained in caring for the mentally ill come up to him and try to calm him down. Eventually after much swearing on the old mans part, they get him out. The spirit that entered that room was so dark. They take him outside, and Emma (Lukes mom, who is also the police officer) Catches many fist as he tries to hit the social workers. Unfortunately, one of them was hurt (he got hit in the cheek bone).
The poor man that was behaving so badly has schezorphania (he has done things like this before, and can never remember them afterward) and lives by himself. I don't think he is receiving any treatment.
I'm sure this is a Sacrament meeting to remember for a lot of reasons. Poor Mark!! Will anyone remember his talk? After the man left, could people settle down enough to listen again? Thank you for writing this. We will all count our blessings tonight.
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